Archives for Savings & Budgets - Page 14
Break Free from Excuses
It's time to break free. Time to free yourself from the excuses you think up for reasons you buy yourself into debt. Time to free yourself from justifing reasons you…
The 5 R’s of Saving Money
Everyone's heard of the three R's in relation to the environment. Reduce, reuse, and recycle. I actually think they are missing two other R's that are very important to not…
Thrifty Movie Rentals
"All the world's a mass of folly, Youth is gay, age melancholy: Youth is spending, age is thrifty." - William Henry Ireland The other night, Jeanine and I enjoyed one…
Consumption: Evils of Bulk Buying
"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." -- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin It is easy to draw a parallel with personal finances and eating. I write…
Tender Age Investing: Teach Kids Money Concepts
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." -- Kurt Herbert Alder One of my most rewarding experiences as an adult was teaching business skills…
Tricks To Saving Money
"Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse" -- George Sheehan I've posted a few times about the parallel between staying healthy and financial…
Trivial Untruth: Gift with Purchase
"The cruelest lies are often told in silence." -- Adlai Stevenson Last weekend, Jeanine and I were hanging out at the house in Palm Springs with our friend, Debbie. After…
Saving Money: The Art of Business Travel
"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation." -- Elizabeth Drew I travel quite often for my job so I'm always on the prowl for ways…
No Life Insurance for Us
We started contemplating term life insurance about four years ago. LaLa had just been laid off from our company and we were about to close on our first house purchase.…
Our Credit Card Debt Story
Debt Hater recently asked me how I paid down my credit card debt so quickly. First let me correct what I stated in that post about how much debt got…